Application-Based Data Type Selection

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the posit format comprises a sign, a regime, an exponent, and a mantissa.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the performance characteristics include application errors generated due to iteration, power consumption associated with the at least one application, precision or accuracy of data generated when the at least one application is executed using data in the first format or data in the second format, or a reliability parameter associated with the at least one application, or any combination thereof.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the performance characteristics include a health of the at least one application while the at least one application performs operations using data formatted according to the first format, a health of the at least one application while the at least one application performs operations using data formatted according to the second format, or both.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one application comprises an application configured to perform a personalized medicine computation, an automotive computation, or a cyber-security computation, or any combination thereof.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein performing the operation to convert the data type utilized by the at least one application from the first format to the second format comprises altering a quantity of bits associated with at least one bit sub-set contained within the data type.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the applications include applications configured to perform astronomical computations, atomic computations, or financial computations, or any combination thereof.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the performance characteristics include a quantity of application errors, a collected user satisfaction metric, types of application dependencies, or a transaction trace associated with the at least one application, or any combination thereof.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the processing device is further configured to perform the operation to convert the data utilized by the at least one application from the first format to the second format by altering a quantity of bits associated with at least one bit sub-set contained within the data.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising an application performance management component coupled to the processing device, wherein the processing device is further configured to access data generated by the application performance management component to monitor the performance characteristics.

18. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the performance characteristics include monitored application response times, application error information, collected user satisfaction metrics, application dependencies among the plurality of applications, or a transaction trace associated with the particular application, or any combination thereof.

21. The system of claim 19, wherein the performance characteristics include information corresponding to a health of the applications executed by the host.